Similarities and differences between Dixon of Dock Green and Breaking Bad
- Dixon of Dock Green is an old British TV crime drama cast and shot between the 1950-70's. It featured a main character, Dixon, portrayed by Jack Warner who played the part of a Police man and we followed his everyday stories. He solved crime by using common sense and there were few large and violent crimes just petty thefts for example. Whilst on the topic about violence the show never aired any extremely gratuitous parts or explicit parts and this fit in with the views and values shown in that time period. 'anachronism' is a word that can be used to link things to a particular time period and Dixon was a police man suited to that time period as it wasn't as violent as it is today. Policemen in London today very different to what they were in the 60/70's. There were aspects of violence, in particular the nuclear protests which sparked the use of the well known hippy symbol. Policemen today have a different approach towards crime but we the audience still don't see it that way we still picture policemen how they were in the 60's.
- Breaking Bad is an American TV crime drama where we follow the story of the criminal and not of the law. This is not typical of crime dramas to follow this story, however it is typical of them to show clear binary opposites, for example right vs wrong, good vs bad and Police vs Criminals. Breaking bad is set in present times (when it was filmed 3 years ago) and explores the life of Walter White, a chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin. The law in this case is represented very differently to that of the people in Dixon of Dock Green. Also there is gruesome and gratuitous violence and there is a lack of censorship compared to that in the 1970's England . Although some stuff is cut out a lot of stuff is shown, for example murder, theft and drug dealing. Things which would have been widely unacceptable is easily looked past now a days.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_of_Dock_Green - Wikipedia article for Dixon of Dock
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixon_of_Dock_Green
- "Dixon of Dock Green." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 28 Dec. 2016.
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- The image of Jack Warner in police uniform with helmet was well-known to the public and made for a very effective symbol of policing in Britain - This quote looks at how people viewed the police, this can be linked to certain hegemonic values that we still believe the police is like today and differs from american views of the police as recently with the Black lives matter campaign they are not being praised as saviours anymore.
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